Research areas:
- Numerical Weather Prediction and Earth System Science
- Land-Atmosphere Interaction and Predictability
- Parameterisations and Data Assimilation
- Climate-change and Low-frequency Variability
Professional pathway:
- Senior scientist (current position), Model Division/Physics, ECMWF, UK, since 2009.
- Scientist, Model Division/Physics, ECMWF, UK, 2006-2009.
- Visiting scientist at the Meteorological Service of Canada, RPN, Canada, 2004-2005.
- ALATNET young researcher at CNRM, GMAP, France, 2000-2003.
- Weather forecasting and land modelling at the ARPA-Piedmont, Italy, 1999-2002.
Academic pathway:
- Habilitation in Meteorology (UPS, Toulouse-III), in 2012.
- PhD in Meteorology (UPS, Toulouse-III and UNIGE, Genoa) in 2003.
- Physics degree ("Laurea", UNITO, University of Torino, Italy) in 1999.
- Visiting student (BSc/MSc, University of Reading, Met. Department, UK) in 1997.
- Computer science ("Diploma", Peano Institute, Torino, Italy), in 1994.
Commitees & Projects:
- EUMETSAT Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility (LSA-SAF), steering group.
- EUMETNET/SRNWP 2010-2015 Land Expert Team: Short-Range Numerical Weather Prediction.
- WMO/GCW 2013-2015 World Meteorological Organization (), Global Chryosphere Watch (), steering group.
- GLASS/GEWEX 2010-2015 Global Land Atmosphere System Study panel's member.
- EARTH2OBSERVE 2014-2017: Global Earth Observation for Integrated Water Resource Assessment
- IMAGINES 2013-2015: Global Biosphere Monitoring via multi-sensor and multi-scale biophysical land variables exploiting Sentinel sensor data
- GEOLAND I&II 2006-2012: Global Operational land surface modelling and data assimilation for vegetation (LAI) and carbon dioxide exchange (NEE)
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